Lewis Tappan: “No society is free from vices and crime, and we well know that human depravity springs from another source than slavery.”

In both instances the increase has been chiefly owing to immigration; but the ratio shows the influence of slavery in retarding immigration.

Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.

There is not a State or Territory in the Union in which you, fellow-citizens, have not an overwhelming majority over the slaveholders; and the majority is probably the greatest in those in which the slaves are the most numerous, because in…

You have lamentable experience, that such is not the case where slaveholders bear rule.